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What an utterly brilliant name!
Which book are you reading now? Volume XI
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What an utterly brilliant name!
It's cited in virtually every book on urban geography/planning I read, so here's hoping it lives up to the reputation and the title!
Josu
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Africa: A Biography of the Continent. Not going too well, making 35 pages a day on average.
The Holocaust in American Life is a much clearer than anything I've ever seen so far, although it reads more like a cultural criticism than a rigorous work of history. I'm going to try and finish Africa first, but the disparity between the two is ridiculous. I could read the whole book in a day.
Does this list include fiction?
The Holocaust in American Life is a much clearer than anything I've ever seen so far, although it reads more like a cultural criticism than a rigorous work of history. I'm going to try and finish Africa first, but the disparity between the two is ridiculous. I could read the whole book in a day.
Does this list include fiction?
Is there a particular reason why you picked up a book from a 9th century author? Is it for a class or are you gearing up for a round of Crusader Kings?
It can! 35 pages a day is probably the most I can devote to pleasure reading. During the week it can dip below 10.
It can! 35 pages a day is probably the most I can devote to pleasure reading. During the week it can dip below 10.
I did 500 a day when reading A Storm of Swords, though I think that's an exception rather than the rule.
It's probably different for fiction and nonfiction and reading habits. I'm reading for a part of my lunch, between when I finish prep for dinner and before it comes out of the oven, briefly between meetings when I just need a moment, and the stuff like that.
The best books (i.e. the few that get a 5/5 rating and are mentioned in the WH required reading list) are a different story. I remember consuming huge portions of McCullough's biographies in a single day, where every free moment I had I was devoting to the reading. Sometimes hitting 200 pages/day.
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Tom Jones by Henry Fielding.
Hilarious. Not a particularly easy read though (C18th). But I've read harder. And the more I read of it the easier it gets.
A bit long, maybe, at 900 pages.
Similar style to Laurence Sterne and Tristram Shandy, I suppose. Yet, funnier I think.
Hilarious. Not a particularly easy read though (C18th). But I've read harder. And the more I read of it the easier it gets.
A bit long, maybe, at 900 pages.
Similar style to Laurence Sterne and Tristram Shandy, I suppose. Yet, funnier I think.
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Our Dumb Century, by the Onion. My favorite headline so far has to be "Chamberlain Returns from Meeting with Hitler Promising 'London Laid Waste in Our Time'".
Yeah, generally when I read its just in between classes, or right before lecture starts, since otherwise I'd just be sitting there staring at the wall.
But, like you said with McCullough, I got addicted to GoT post-TV show and finished the book in a day. I don't think that's ever actually happened to me before, with any other book.
OK, well, then regarding fiction, I'm currently reading Foundation's Edge (Asimov is good for when I need my Quick Fix) and Diaspora by Greg Egan (which is the opposite- hard, mind-crunching sci-fi). Egan is a genius and the hardest sci-fi writer alive, but the quality of his plots and characters swing wildly. I'd read it just for the science.
It can! 35 pages a day is probably the most I can devote to pleasure reading. During the week it can dip below 10.
I've been on the same book for like 7 weeks now.
Just no time.Man, I wish I was in undergrad again. Reading between classes, relatively easy-to-meet deadlines, loads of office hours and stuff to help on the work, that was the life.
I've been on the same book for like 7 weeks now.
I finish most of my traveling books in a couple weeks, but my at-home books take an ungodly amount of time. I've been working on Whig Party since January and am only half-way through it. That's also because I keep reading my traveling books while at home though; what I really need is time to focus on the big ones.
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I wish you posted the "Ottoman Empire almost declares war on itself" one.
That entire book is gold. The Moon landing front page gets me every time.
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If you are interested in Africa, I would recommend Martin Meredith's The Fate of Africa. His focus is from independence to now, but it is very well done and offers as far as I can tell a pretty good overview. (At the very least, it is making my Developmental Economics class much easier.)
I can generally stay at 40 pages, although as far as non-fiction goes, my record has to stand at when I read Shake Hands with the Devil (around 600 pages, IIRC) in a single weekend. That was a good weekend, all alone in the basement of the library with literally nobody bothering me for an entire day and a half.It can! 35 pages a day is probably the most I can devote to pleasure reading. During the week it can dip below 10.
Thank you! It seems extremely readable; a bit like George Friedman's style of writing.
Josu
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No, the author is a current one, I think that the book was written about 4 years ago. The book is about this guy. There is no a particular reason, from a time to now I am reading exclusively historical novels, I like history, but I am awfull with names, dates and things like that, hence there is no too much sense from my side to read essay books or similar, so I read stories about history instead of history
Since I knew about this guy I became interested on him because of being a half brother of Iñigo Arista (considered as the first navarrese king). I was also interested on him because I listened old tales about "El moro Muza" (Musa the moor), that in some areas was considered a kind of bogeyman to scare children
On the other hand I saw the book on amazon in kindle format for a good price so I bought it.
Luckymoose
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I love that book. I think I read it in two sittings, though. Reading time really depends on, well, laziness and distraction for me.
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